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Law that increased federal power during WWII
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Law that provided benefits for returning WWII veterans that included loans, mortgages, tuition payments, etc.
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imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
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kids from this era come from families who made their child post WWII.
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People moved from crowded over populated cities (Rust Belt) to the suburbs (Sun Belt) the moved there for more space to start a family.
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The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc (
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Policy to prevent the spread of communism, may have caused the red scare to intensify.
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Made to counter Soviet "geopolitical hegemony" during the Cold War.
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A significant step for HUAC was its investigation of the charges of espionage brought against Alger Hiss in 1948.
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when Soviet U.S. and British divided to occupy Germany
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Ameican initiative to aid western europe where the U.S. gave $13 billion to help rebuild western europe economy.
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NATO is an inergovernmental military alliance formed on April 4th, 1949 bsed off of the North Atlantic Treaty.
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A stereotype in media throughout the 1950's and into the 1960's. They were very similar to modern days "Hipsters" they were "Pseudo intellectual" and were very into drug use.
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The 50's began the era of suburbs and levvitowns.
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The 1950's culture involved the emergence of new music called Rock & Roll, the 50's also included activists such as MLK Jr. and Rosa Parks, also the idea of Anti-communism came along.
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making accusations without proper evidence.
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Rock and Roll emerged in the 1950's starting with Elvis and rolling into the 60's and 70's with the emergence of more psychedelic rock music, then evolving in the 80's to hard rock.
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War Between North and South Korea. The United States fought for teh South Korean side, and the North was helped by China and the Soviet Union
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Dwight D Eisenhower was the President of the United States of America from 1953 t o1961.
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Joined in 1954 and built McDonalds to be the successful fast food operation in history.
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theory that said if one country in a region falls to communism then all the other countries in that region will follow one by one sort of like dominos.
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Jonas Salk invented the Polio vaccine and it was announced safe.
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Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975
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U.S. authorization to build 41,000 miles of interstate highways.
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The U.S. competition with the U.S.S.R. for technological dominance spurred the U.S. on to the first-ever landing on the moon. The race ran from 1957 to 1975.
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Inidividual acts of protest: burnign draft cards, self-immolation, anti-war entertainment at Government Buildings, draft borads, recruiters, weapon manufacturers.
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The space race, the beatles, cuban missile crisis, anti war movement, civil rights movement
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JFK was our 35th president in the United States of America. He was the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis, The Bay of Pigs invasion, the Space Race, and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
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Trial over the espinoage prosecution
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Military invasion in cuba that was a failed mission.
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a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba.
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The 36th president of the United States of America following the Assainatin of President John F. Kennedy.
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Feminist who played a leading figure role in the womens movement in the US.
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Domestic Programs launched by LBJ to eliminate racial injustice and poverty.
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Authorized President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.
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Supreme Court Case that put the Miranda Rights into the police procedure.
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This massive North Vietnamese surprise attack during the 1968 Tet holiday was a crucial turning point in the war.
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A retired US Army master sergeant who received the Medal of Honor in 1981 for his actions in combat near Loc Ninh, South Vietnam on May 2, 1968.
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Social Activist. who was arrested and tried for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention
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Nixon's vietnamization policy entailed removal of US troops as South Vietnamese began to fight.
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disco, feminism, civil rights
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"The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age."
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37th president of the United States of America from 1969 to 1974. he ended Americas involvement in the Vietnam war in 1973.
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mtv, videogames, Ronald Reagan era, nearing the end of the cold war.
